Show CHEROKEE DESTIN I 1 settlers without fuel food or clothing APPEAL FROM A missionary women suffering tor for want ot of covering to keep them warm worl work offered to believe starving strikers ers in now mew york Ter Tenement rement house fire fira suffocates cates three people deep snow in oregon 01 boston jan S according to advices advises received by the congregational home borne missionary society tile the circle ot of suffering in parts ot f the west Is widening it includes the cherokee strip in oki oklahoma a which was opened tor for sett leme it a year ago the country Is emphatically new the missionaries ot of tile the con gregat lonal rome home missionary society in forwarding special correspondence to the situation state that thai there Is special need ot of clothing cloth lne with tile tho thermometer below zero there were thirteen men at a religious service who wore no overcoats and were not known to own one some ol of the women were without wraps wrap 5 ot of a any fly kind A mother and daughter alternately wore the fhe same pair ol of shoes women have been found barefooted at home not adt possessing any kind ot of an old shoo the home missionary writes as follows 1 I have no means whatever we have members who have not been able to ho anything with my limited amount of 0 1 per quarter I 1 have divided with two or three ot of our families to keep p them from absolute suffering but I 1 cannot do anything any thing more I 1 think the strip which Is only EL a year old will trill be in ili much better condition in another year as they will raise considerable crops they will be seed crops ot of course but they will help A meeting has been held to petition congress for help but we cannot wall wait on congressional action it t takes akes every cent out our society ty can raise to set got books keep up sabbath schools arid and provide fuel for tho the church the building Is new and not yet completed The theadies ladies recently purchased a stove the blizzard struck us Christ christmas mag ellice which time somo families have suffered simply for want of clothes of any description the home missionary society has already forwarded clothing cloth lne tor for these sufferers and will gladly be tho the almoner of the public in so doing |